Session Chairs: Beth Virnig, Associate Dean for Research and Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Bill Stauffer, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota

Kariuki Njenga, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

The Ecology of Tuberculosis in Pastoralist Communities

Rudovick Reuben Kazwala, Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Evidence Based Approach to One Health: A Perspective from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Sam Thevasagayam, Director, Bill & Melida Gates Foundation

NIAID Efforts in Infectious Disease at the Animal-Human Interface

Tina Parker, Program Officer, Translational Research Section of the Office of Biodefense, Research Resources and Tranlational Research, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Disease (DMID), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

One Health in the 'real world' takes people, time, commitment and collaborations. We are excited to offer a one day workshop that will explore One Health from the concept through the everyday realities on the ground. We will commence with a plenary session addressing what One Health is and the actors who make the One Health system work. Following the morning plenary session we will hit the ground for an on-site panel discussion at the Minnesota Sate Fairgrounds to address animal human interactions in public settings. We will end the afternoon in an interactive learning room where we will delve into the realities of how One Health works in the 'real world' and how we can build on this with synthesis of insights and improving One Health partnerships. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to carry these insights forward in a published synthesis document that can be used to inform stakeholders who bring One Health to the realities of disease detection, cure, and prevention.

This workshop is a collaborative program with the Minnesota Food Safety and Defense Task Force, The Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the University of Minnesota.

Consumers get products from a wide range of food systems that operate on local, regional and global scales. The food industry imports from local, regional and global producers and exports to distributors acting on all scales. Each scale has its own advantages and challenges when it comes to food safety. Importantly, each scale can benefit from innovations in the other systems. Presentations will consider the current state of food safety, predicted demands on food systems, resources needed to maintain food quality in the future, innovations in the pipeline, and the impact of consumer expectations on food security. Emphasis will be on meat and eggs at local, upper Midwest region, national and global levels. Interactive discussions will involve participants on how future food systems might look and the resulting opportunities, risks and benefits across the scales.

Limited Space: 50 participants

8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Is It Possible to Predict the Next Outbreak Threat?

This workshop will challenge the existing paradigm (tools, technologies, systems used) in infectious disease emergence and/or reemergence based on an analytical review of key concepts. Participants will engage with mathematical modelers, field epidemiologists and bench scientists in interactive and formative sessions to discuss challenging situations and problems in the thematic areas of (1) mathematical models of patterns of infectious disease as a predictor of new events, (2) modeling pathogen evolution to predict pandemics - are the existing approaches sufficient?, (3) technological advances - What is the resolution needed for discovery of emergent events? (4) the computational challenge - biocomputation as an aid in pathogen discovery, and (5) case-in-point - synthesis of the challenge of prediction.

The workshop led by NIH grants program directors and administrators and leading researchers in areas of infectious disease and one health, will provide a forum for information exchange in the following areas: assist early and established investigators in the development of strategies that would enable them to secure research funds; strategies for submitting a successful application; identify new funding opportunities; highlight international collaborative/partner opportunities; explore new traning paradigms to meet future research needs; and Institutional support (e.g. in identifying funding opportunities for investigators). This interactive workshohp will provide many opportunities for participants to ask questions and seek additional information from the experts.